Booting XP from USB

[thesk8man]

Hi

I woud like to

A) make a copy of my C: drive
B) copy that image over to usb thumb drive
C) make that usb drive bootable

thanks in advance.

p.s: its for my laptop.

 

[dmkmarlonsparda13]

is the laptop able to boot from usb devices?

and ur going to need a big flash drive to do that.

also a good software to use to make back ups is

PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 if u dont want to use the windows one which most people dont.

 

[Nils]

I would use Snapshot Disk Imaging

Afterwards get your USB drive ready with an empty NTFS primary active partition on it with the same size as your c partition on the laptop and just restore the image to the usb drive.

 

[thesk8man]

Yes it can boot up from usb.

I have used Acronis True Image Home 11.0 to make a backup of my c:

now i also have a usb drive big enough.

after restoring the image to the usb drive how do i make it active ?

is their any other thing i need to do? thanks

 

[Nils]

Norton Partition Magic 8.0